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    Best Drivers for 9800PRO

    I have an ATI official 9800pro 128mb card. Right now Im using the 4.12's for the card, because the most recent drivers gave me a bit of lag in a few older games. Am I missing out on anything with the 4.12's or should I update to the newest for BF2?
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    Best Graphics drivers for FX5200

    I am having trouble watching video's in windows media player, everything is bright unless I turn down hardware acceleration. I have just installed this card for the first time in about a year and Im not sure whats causing it. I am using the latest drivers. Perhaps older ones? Also, whats the...
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    MSN messnger 7.0

    Hey. If anyone has MSN Messenger 7, maybe they can help me out. When I use the Pack option, to have a custom theme, it makes my message box much bigger then the default. Once I use any pack, my message box is permedently large, and very anoying, does anyone know how to get my message boxes...
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    Need to build/buy a server...

    Hey everyone. I need to obtain a file server that is both reliable, AND cost effective. The file server is for a small business that has 8 computer's in its office. The server will mainly store Blueprints and specs for sheet metal products. Please do not suggest an old PC as this needs...
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    New CPU problem

    I recently updated a Intel 865G board from a 2.4ghz celeron to a 2.8ghz p4 prescott. The rest of the components: WD 60gig HD 7200RPM Radeon 9800 PRO 128mb (ati official) 1024 GEIL DDR400 in Dual channel After I updated the cpu, my video games have become very jumpy. In games like...
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    HL2 Configuration file

    I am trying to Clear a glitch out of HL2 and CS:S, and cannot seem to find the configuration file that stores the information for your video settings. I have deleted the entire game, and steam, and then deleted the remaining folders, and also checked to see if there was a folder in application...
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    System Lags since upgrade, help

    Hey everyone: I had a dell system that i adopted, it was a: 845G Intel board 2.4ghz celeron CPU 533 FSB 512mb pc2700 radeon 9800pro (PSU rated at 340w max) I had just upgraded it to: 2.8ghz P4 533fsb Prescott 1mb L2 1024mb pc2700 running Dual Channel After these two changed i...
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    Will Dual Channel make a diff?

    I am running a system on single channel mode. P4 2.8ghz 533FSB 1024mb pc2700 radeon9800 pro In order to go dual channel i would have to purchase some new ram. Is it worth it with this CPU and vid card?
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    Is my CPU a bottle neck?

    Is a P4 2.4ghz 533fsb a bottleneck for a 9800pro? (running at 8xagp, system mem running single channel) I am getting low FPS in large rooms/outdoors/multiple person fights in games such as doom3 and HL2. I can see frame rates as low as like 12fps. I also have 1024mb pc2700. Is this about...
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    p4 800fsb and pc2700

    Hey. I have always done AMD builds since recently. Question is, will a P4 that runs on 800FSB work with pc2700 memory? Or, is the 800FSB supposed to be with the pc3200? Or can they run outa sync?? Thanks in advance.
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    MSI 9600 Pro Problems

    About 3 weeks ago me and my friend put together a super low budget PC for him. We had $400 to work with. The system: ECS mainboard (cant remember model) Athlon XP 3000+ 333fsb 1024mb pc2700 **Radeon 9600pro 128mb from MSI** onboard sound 80gig WD HD @ 7200rpm Anyway, the Video...
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    CS: Source and Hardware

    I was wondering..what generally makes your FPS drop when your playing a very large player game, say 32 vs. 32, or more. I am having some trouble keeping a stable framerate when I am in such big games. My Rig is as follows: 2.66 Ghz P4 no HT 640mb pc3200 Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (ATI...
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    America's Army Server Manager

    I had America's Army on my system a long time ago, and I still have the server manager. Whenever i try to uninstall it in add/remove it tells me "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed" How do i unistall this??
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    P4 533mhz FSB and pc3200

    Hello. I am not very familiar with how things work on a pentium mainboard. i have a p4 running at 533fsb, its 2.4ghz. I need some memory for this system, will DDR400, or pc3200 run at its full potential? Or should i get pc2700?
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    Synthetic benchmarking...

    I am currently getting 5000pts in 3dmark03 with the current rig: 2.4ghz P4 533mhz FSB 640mb pc2700 Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb from ATI Dell intel mainboard from the 4600i No OC on any components Latest ATI drivers. I have never used synthetic testing before, and actually heard i can...
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    CRT Flat Screen problem

    I just received a CRT for a little system I am putting together. I have nver used a Flat screen before, i sort of went from Generic, straight over to flat pannel LCD's. This monitor, when first turned on, needs to take around 20 minutes before the picture will fit on screen. Yes, i can adjust...
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    9700 Pro vs. X700

    I am not familiar with the X series Radeons at all. I was wondering, Would a X700 do greater then a 9700 Pro in todays games? Also, can the X700 be purchased in an AGP 8X format?
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    Monitor Problem

    I have recently aquired a View Sonic UltraBrite E70f+ 17" flat screen monitor. When using the monitor, in any resolution or refresh rate, there is a pretty ugly geometry problem. about an inch and a half to the left of the center of the screen, on the top and bottom of the screen, there...
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    New ATI cards

    I have always used Nvidia graphics cards, and have just recently purchased 3 ati 9550 video cards to install in 3 office computers that i put together. My question is: why do i see two video cards installed? "Radeon 9550" and "Radeon 9550 secondary" ?? At first i assumed that ati's setup...
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    6200 vs 5700 ultra?

    I wanted to know which of these two video cards were faster in todays dx9 games. Thanks.
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    AGP Value Card

    Hey everyone. I'm building 3 systems for an office environment. The systems are to be value systems and are only gonna cost around $400 to the buyer. The needs of the consumer are mainly online access, office programs, light graphical and CAD programs, and some blue print programs. My...
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    Noisy GPU Fan?

    Hey everyone. I wanted to post this thread to teach anyone how to repair a noisy GPU fan on the GPU's heatsink. I performed this repair with a Gainward 5700 Ultra video card, and the rule applies to almost any GPU with a fan. Before this procedure the fan seemed like it was going to die, it...
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    No AA with gainward 5700u 960 Gold

    I seem to be having a problem with one of my video cards. I cant enable AA in Half life 2. When i do change it in the game, the advanced video options does say that it is on whatever i set it too, say 4x, but there will be no image difference. This also results in my AMMO hue moving above...
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    Dimension 4600i and GeForce6800

    I have recently been offered a 6800 for a steal. Even tho i dont need this card, because of the deal its worth getting, even if i was to sell it at a later date. Question is, will this card work inside the 4600i? I know it physically fits (barely). There are a few things that makes me...
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    Thermal Paste on a P4

    Hey everyone, i just recieved my dell proprietory heatsink and ducting, but its obveously been removed once. What kind of thermal paste should i use?? I have some antec reference, and some regular generic white colored thermal paste. A local pc shop told me the generic paste was much...
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    New PC Cooling question

    Hey everyone. A friend of mine broke his CPU when he was messing with somthing inside his 6 month old dell's case. He wanted to just start over instead of me replacing the P4 it had come with, which cost $300. So a new Athlon Xp and Mobo package actually cost the same, i had a spare case...
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    New System Build

    Hey everyone. I just put a system together for a friend, consisting of a ASUS A7V880 VIA KT880 mainboard, and a Athlon XP 3000+ with a FSB of 333. Windows XP detects this as a Athlon XP 3100+, i believe running at 2.17ghz, instead of the stock 2.16. (the actual speed may be a bit...
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    New CPU

    Hey everyone. My computer is quite dated. I currently have a MSI KT3 Ultra2 mainboard Athlon XP 1800+ 640mb DDR, (one 256mb 2100, one 256mb 2700, one 128mb 2700) Two 40gig WD 7200rpm hard drives on IDE lines. I am purchasing a Athlon XP 2700+, right now they are very cost effective...
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    Cannot Get Doom 3 to run!

    Hello Everyone. After installing Doom 3, during the startup of the game, i get the error during initialization screen, with the following message: 1533 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE 640 MB System Memory 64 MB Video Memory Winsock Initialized Hostname: none-cjaizyagkr IP...
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    Jumping onto a wireless network

    Hey everyone. Can't get a laptop to jump onto a wireless network thats setup in a neighbors house. I am going over to his house to look at it in a few hours, but I have never dealt with wireless before, my home networks have always been wired, which is as simple as Plug and Play. Is there a...
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    FIREFOX Question!

    Hey everyone. I have always used IE for as long as i can remember. I decided to use FireFox for the first time a few days back. It turns out I am not really to impressed by it, although it is very secure and nicely done. Anyhow.... After unistalling it, I always like to clean...